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  1. Re:He stood his ground on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    Your agenda is showing...

  2. Re:Google plus on Bennett Haselton: Google+ To Gmail Controversy Missing the Point · · Score: 1

    I'd really like to forward everything to a different service. Anyone have any ideas?

  3. Re:Level the playing field on How Good Are Charter Schools For the Public School System? · · Score: 1

    If you want to be fair, then all the parents of the public schools should have to pay tuition to the Charter/Private schools since the parents of those students continue to pay property taxes for the public schools.

    And did you ever notice that the biggest cheerleaders for Public schools usually have their children in private schools? Sidwell Friends, anybody? Even many pubic school teachers send their kids to private schools.

  4. Re: Decreased Costs on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 1

    We addressed this problem in the mid 90's and the solution was working well. It was undone in the last two years of the Bush Admin.

  5. Re: Decreased Costs on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 1

    I believe the cause of Pregnancy is well know, with simple and cheap ways to avoid it.

  6. Re:ACA / obamacare on Doctors Say Food Stamp Cuts Could Cause Higher Healthcare Costs · · Score: 2

    They currently offer a plan that is better than Obamacare

  7. Re:Citation Needed on Google Co-Opts Whale-Watching Boat To Ferry Employees · · Score: 1

    No one is holding a gun to their heads and forcing them to live there.

  8. What Do You Want To Bet? on White House Reportedly Dismissing Key Healthcare.gov Contractor · · Score: 1

    $20 says that there will be source code not passed along, requiring reverse engineering or rewrites.

    If I'm wrong, you'll have to see my ex because she has all my money.

  9. Re:Citation Needed on Google Co-Opts Whale-Watching Boat To Ferry Employees · · Score: 1

    It makes the rhetoric about taking care of the poor and underprivileged emanating from these geographic areas ring especially hollow.

    The whole area is a hot mess of progressive policies and political correctness. Yet, when it comes to money, all else falls away to what's best for the bottom line.

  10. Re:Cue the climate change deniers ... on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 1

    Your argument is with the IPCC

  11. Re: Bozos is a pussy on Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Bezos After Kidney Stone Attack · · Score: 1

    Yeah...too much soda, not enough water.

    Take heed everyone.

  12. Re: Wait What? on Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Bezos After Kidney Stone Attack · · Score: 1

    Actually, that's pretty much the standard treatment once they confirm it. Pain control, lots of water, and wait for it to pass.

  13. Bozos is a pussy on Ecuadorian Navy Rescues Bezos After Kidney Stone Attack · · Score: 1

    I have had 5 kidney stone episodes in the last 30 years. The first one is scary because you have no idea what is happening. The rest are routine, more or less.

    Urine sample to check for blood and a simple x-ray ( CT Scan? Really?) and they send you home with Vicodin and tell you to drink lots of water. Hell, he could have gotten the RX and continued the cruise if he wanted.

    What a wus.

  14. Re:Global warming. on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 1

    You should play doge ball.

  15. All I Want on Ford Will Demo Solar-Charged Car At CES · · Score: 2

    Is something that would power a fan so that the car doesn't turn into an oven during the day.

  16. Re:Global warming. on Helicopter Rescue For All Passengers Aboard Antarctic Research Ship · · Score: 2

    That sure is something actual climate scientists have said

    Not so fast there. You have to admit that the AGW camp is comprised on many different people. And many of those people are in positions that are influential...media, entertainment, etc. These non-scientists regularly equate weather events with AGW. They do so forcefully and very publicly with widespread exposure. All I've ever heard from the scientists are tepid and hard to find statements that, "no, you really can't say that".

    Highly prominent scientists in AGW research have moved from science into advocacy of specific public policy. In doing that they have taken the debate out of the scientific realm and placed it into the public realm, where everyone has the right to express an opinion and where the science is merely one component of the debate.

    And even then, some very visible AGW scientists are saying that weather events can be related to climate change

    So you cannot dismiss accusations that the AGW camp is equating weather and climate when convenient and beneficial to the cause and then hide behind the scientists that are sticking as closely as possible to the scientific method when someone calls you on it.

  17. Re:Land of the Free! on Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters · · Score: 1

    Let hunters field armed drones to disable or shoot down PETA drones

    Now that's a reality show I'd watch anytime. You would need gun camera's and something flammable on board.

  18. Shooting Them Down on Illinois Law Grounds PETA Drones Meant To Harass Hunters · · Score: 4, Funny

    It was so much fun to read about their drones being shot down and PETA's incredulous reactions to it.

  19. Re:Sure they will on Mars One Selects Second Round Candidate Astronauts · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Starting in 2018, four astronauts will leave for Mars every two years to bury the previous four..."

    Fixed.

  20. Re:A natural reaction to Faux News i think on The Rise of Hoax News · · Score: 1

    You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

    - Randolf Hearst

  21. Re:You mean like CBS News? on The Rise of Hoax News · · Score: 1

    Just an illustration of most of the examples mentioned in the summary. They were all something that the media outlet was already thinking.

    Palin to Al Jazeera? Sure says Washington Post, "It's just confirmation of what we believe". Same for the several fake check tabs containing racist or "homophobic" rants. The media believes America is racist and homophobic, so the stories were just confirmation of their belief...no fact checking needed.

    Likewise, Dan Rather believed that Bush was a draft dodging rich boy and wow, what do you know? Here are documents confirming his belief.

    So the fake news isn't an instance of the media being fooled, it's an instance of their preconceived beliefs being confirmed...or so they thought.

  22. Re:first shot on Hearing Shows How 'Military-Style' Raid On Calif. Power Station Spooks U.S. · · Score: 0

    "Initially, the attack was being treated as vandalism and handled by local law enforcement,"

    Because we know a terrorist attack is impossible. Obama killed Bin Laden.

  23. Re:20 year old news? on Ford Rolls the Dice With Breakthrough F-150 Aluminum Pickup Truck · · Score: 1

    Saaaaweeet!

  24. Re:20 year old news? on Ford Rolls the Dice With Breakthrough F-150 Aluminum Pickup Truck · · Score: 1

    The 2013 F-150 has an MSRP of less than $25k.

    For $50k you are talking a ton of useless frill upgrades (if you can even get that high) or a F-250 or larger. THOSE trucks do have the need for steel.

  25. Re:20 year old news? on Ford Rolls the Dice With Breakthrough F-150 Aluminum Pickup Truck · · Score: 1

    I wonder when I can get an aluminum Mustang so I can polish it like a P-51.

    Sweet.